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Daily Archive: January 16, 2012

Program aimed at celebrating Canada’s best racers now in its 10th year

Canadian motorsports fans have 10 days left to register their votes for Canada’s top racers of 2011. Visitors to www.insidetracknews.com will have their say in ‘Racer of the Year’ and ‘Up and Coming Racer of the Year’ categories as part of the 10th annual Inside Track Motorsports News Readers’ Choice Awards.

Compass360 Racing (C360R) released details of its fourth and final driver pairing for the first race of the 2012 season, announcing Bo Roach and Trevor Hopwood as pilots of the the #77 Joe Marina Honda / Luna-C Racing / Honda Performance Development Civic Si.

The 17 year-old continues with MW Arden in the battle for the GP3 Championship. A strong start to his 2011 campaign established Mitch as a championship contender in the Series and produced some impressive performances in only his first year of racing in Europe (pole positions at Barcelona and Nurburgring and race win at Barcelona). Mitch finished his rookie year in 9th place. Read the rest of this entry »

Mercedes is the next team working on a copy of Lotus’ innovative ‘braking ride-height correction’ system ahead of the 2012 system.

Shortly after news broke that the former Renault team had devised a passive and therefore legal system to stabilise a car’s ride height under braking, reports emerged that Ferrari is “working on a similar system”.